scholarly journals Classroom Teachers’ Viewpoints About the Effects of Immersion Programs on Native Language Development in a Turkish Context

2015 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 363-367
Author(s):  
Sühendan Er ◽  
İ. Hakkı Mirici
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Immersion Programs

What the Hell, English?

2021 ◽  
pp. 2-38
Author(s):  
Arika Okrent ◽  
Sean O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Word Order ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Orderly System ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides an overview of the oddities of the English language. It begins by looking at the poem of Dutch writer Gerard Nolst Trenité and how he spent his career nitpicking defense of his own native language. Nolst Trenité saw that the Dutch language had its own inconsistencies. His complaints about the way his fellow citizens butchered the Dutch language were different from his complaints about English, but they came from the same expectation that language should be a logical, orderly system. The patterns are often overshadowed by what looks like randomness, and there are irregularities everywhere, not just in the spelling system. At every level of language, from spelling to vocabulary to grammar to word order to meaning there are violations of harmony and order. This book is thus a collection of answers to questions about English. It also presents a history of English that explores the tension between logic and habit in language development.

scholarly journals CONTRIBUTION OF K.K. SAMRIN TO THE FORMATION OF THE KHAKASS WRITING SYSTEM (in 1920-1930-s)

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 389 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-321
Author(s):  
E.P. Mamysheva ◽  
L.V. Yuyukina
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Native Language ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Writing System ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Language Writing

Russia, that was formed as a multi-ethnic and multilingual state, faced urgent question of the spiritual revival of the peoples, who were involved in the process of rapid assimilation at the beginning of the XXI century. National minorities and indigenous peoples have lost their main features of their ethnicity. Among them is disappearance of the native language. The national revival of any nation is inconceivable without the functioning of its mother language. Writing is the main means of fixing, preserving, development of the language and the most significant form of its social functioning. In this regard, it becomes relevant to address the origins of the Soviet writing of the peoples of Siberia. The article deals with the complex process of formation of writing system in Republic of Khakassia. The novelty of the research can be seen in attempts to realize the results of alphabetization through the prism of the biography of one of the participants in the creation of the Khakass script in the 1920s and 1930s. In this regard, K. K. Samrin's contribution to the development of the Khakass language, creation of the alphabet and national literature is revealed. The results of the research can be used in planning and forecasting of language development of minority languages.

scholarly journals Early Development of Neural Speech Encoding Depends on Age but not Native Language Status: Evidence from Lexical Tone

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-59
Author(s):  
Nikolay Novitskiy ◽  
Akshay R Maggu ◽  
Ching Man Lai ◽  
Peggy H Y Chan ◽  
Kay H Y Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Auditory Pathway ◽  
Lexical Tone ◽  
Early Language ◽  
Speech Encoding ◽  
Early Language Development ◽  
Long Latency ◽  
Language Environment

Abstract We investigated the development of early-latency and long-latency brain responses to native and non-native speech to shed light on the neurophysiological underpinnings of perceptual narrowing and early language development. Specifically, we postulated a two-level process to explain the decrease in sensitivity to non-native phonemes towards the end of infancy. Neurons at the earlier stages of the ascending auditory pathway mature rapidly during infancy facilitating the encoding of both native and non-native sounds. This growth enables neurons at the later stages of the auditory pathway to assign phonological status to speech according to the infant’s native language environment. To test this hypothesis, we collected early- latency and long-latency neural responses to native and non-native lexical tones from 85 Cantoneselearning children aged between 23 days and 24 months and 16 days. As expected, a broad range of presumably subcortical early-latency neural encoding measures grew rapidly and substantially during the first two years for both native and non-native tones. By contrast, longlatency cortical electrophysiological changes occurred on a much slower scale and showed sensitivity to nativeness at around six months. Our study provided a comprehensive understanding of early language development by revealing the complementary roles of earlier and later stages of speech processing in the developing brain.

scholarly journals LATVIAN ADAPTATION OF MCARTHUR-BATES COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 487
Author(s):  
Anna Vulāne ◽  
Olga Urek ◽  
Dace Markus
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Communicative Gestures

The article discusses the methodology and the preliminary results of the research project entitled “Latvian language in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: tools, theories and applications” (LAMBA). The project involves 25 researchers – linguists, educators, psychologists – from five institutions in Latvia and Norway, and focuses on phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic acquisition of Latvian as a native language in monolingual and bilingual settings. One of the main goals of the project is to develop a set of norm-referenced language assessment tools that would allow for accurate and time-efficient evaluation of language development in pre-school children.The article will focus specifically on the Latvian adaptation of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories – a parental report tool that assesses the development of receptive and productive vocabulary, and certain aspects of grammar. Two CDI forms were adapted in the project: CDI Words and Gestures designed for use with children between 8 and 16 months of age, and CDI Words and Sentences designed for 16- to 36-month old children. Each CDI form contains extensive and language-specific checklists of lexical items, communicative gestures and grammatical constructions.

LANGUAGE COMPETENCE, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR OF TATARS IN TATARSTAN AND THE REGIONS OF SIBERIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 256-259
Author(s):  
Liliya Nizamova
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Statistical Surveys ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

The article uses the state statistical surveys on the native language, Russian and Tatar language proficien-cy and their use in everyday life by Tatars in the regions of Siberia and Tatarstan to assess the trends of language development in present-day Russia. Results of a survey in 2018 in the Republic of Tatarstan confirm the effects of language shift, reflected in the increasing assimilation and downward trends in the language proficiency and the use of the languages of the peoples of Russia.

scholarly journals The Effect of Foreign Language Education on Preschoolers’ Native Language Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Banu Uslu ◽  
Ceyhun Ersan
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Public Preschool ◽  
Early Language Development ◽  
Experimental Process ◽  
The Right

The present study is conducted to examine how foreign language education may affect preschool children's native language development. The study was carried out with 70 children who were 48-60 months-old and attending a public preschool in Alanya, a district of Antalya, in Turkey. The Solomon Four-Group Design was used. Children’s native language skills were assessed via the Turkish Early Language Development Test (Tedil-3) and the experimental process took 8 weeks. Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Tests were used in the analysis of the data as the data did not show normal distribution. After determining the effect of the experimental procedure, the children included in the control groups were subjected to the same experimental procedure for 8 weeks under the “right to benefit from the experiment process” which has never been applied before in any studies in Turkey. The findings were discussed within the framework of the literature and various suggestions were presented.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF THE EARLY DISCOURSE OF BALINESE PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S DIRECT SPEECH IN SINGARAJA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
I Luh Meiyana Ariss Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Preference ◽  
Early Language ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Early Language Development

This study analyzes the early language development of young Balinese preschool children in Singaraja. Specifically, the study focuses on the early discourse abilities of the novice language learners. The study involved ten 4 – years – old preschool children and their caregivers (parents, extended family members, and nannies) from Singaraja. The data were analyzed to see what discourse types were used by the children and in what language (Indonesian or Balinese). The results suggest that children produce more response discourse type in their utterances due to the fact that these young language learners have very limited communicative repertoire. It seems that their conversation range primarily revolves around the typical question and answer conversational dyad. Furthermore, it has been found that young children make use of the Indonesian language in their responses more than their native language (Balinese language). This language preference may be due to the fact that children are exposed to L2 influences such as: movies, song, and other learning materials.

scholarly journals The Effect of Foreign Language Education on Preschoolers’ Native Language Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Banu Uslu ◽  
Ceyhun Ersan
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Public Preschool ◽  
Early Language Development ◽  
Experimental Process ◽  
The Right

The present study is conducted to examine how foreign language education may affect preschool children's native language development. The study was carried out with 70 children who were 48-60 months-old and attending a public preschool in Alanya, a district of Antalya, in Turkey. The Solomon Four-Group Design was used. Children’s native language skills were assessed via the Turkish Early Language Development Test (Tedil-3) and the experimental process took 8 weeks. Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Tests were used in the analysis of the data as the data did not show normal distribution. After determining the effect of the experimental procedure, the children included in the control groups were subjected to the same experimental procedure for 8 weeks under the “right to benefit from the experiment process” which has never been applied before in any studies in Turkey. The findings were discussed within the framework of the literature and various suggestions were presented.

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